r778- covered with variety of grafs. There is alfo a farm here he- November. r t • t 1— «—■> longing to Mr. Hanna Camp, where he kept part of his cattle during fummer; but in the winter it is often covered with fnow. On my return I faw feveral Zebras, which inhabit the mountain ; but as they are not found in confiderable numbers, ihooting them is prohibited. After refreihing myfelf, I followed my waggon, and towards the evening overtook it. About midnight we came to the Berg Rivier, where there is a ferry ; we continued here during the remaining part of the night. The next morning my companion and myfelf left the waggon, and traverfed Swart Land, or Black Land, leaving the Rie Beck’s Caftiel* on our left. In the afternoon we palfed the Swart Land’s Church, and at night came to the houfe of Clafs Lopfer, which is fituated on the Deep River. He was juft arrived from the Cape, and had brought with him fome excellent wine, to which he very liberally made us welcome. We directed our courfe along the Camis Berg, and obferved the farmers were now engaged in their harveft. At noon we came to a place belonging to the Dutch company, called Fifhers Hook, where we refrefhed ourfelves, and in the afternoon proceeded on our journey to the Cape Town, where I arrived on the twentieth of November, feventeen hundred and feventy-eight, after a journey of fix months. * Takes its name from Governor Van Rie Beck. T H I R D J O U R N E Y . Caffraria quite unknown to Europeans— Channa Lands Height— Well cultivatedfarmofOkker Hynns— Lange Kloaf—Crooked River— Camtours Rivier— Forrefl o f Mimofa— Lorie River— Van Stada’s River— Curious plants and animals— Defcription o f the Hartebeefl— Zout Pan, a curious fa it lake— Total negled o f agriculture in this country— Wild Dogs— Sondays Rivier, nine hundred miles from the Cape— State o f the Dutch boors in this country— Sand Fleet— Chonacquas— Wars between the Cho- nacquas and Caffres— Cattle ftolen by the Caffres— Great Fijh River— Curious plant— Hunting the Buffalo— Difficulty o f crqffing the woods— Extenfive profpeEl o f the Indian Ocean, & c .— Caffraria; hofpitality o f the people— Manners o f the Caffres— King o f the Caffres; Ms palace and rural fat e ; hofpitality and generofity o f this monarch— Curious manufadures o f Caffraria— Method o f making breadfrom the p ith o f the palm tree— Fadion among the Caffres— Defcription o f the country and people— Soil and climate— Adventures on returning— Klow fcknefs among the cattle. T N my third journey it was my fortune to traverfe a part of the continent of Africa, which never had been viiited '— <— > before by any European ; nor do I know that any traveller has fince been permitted to vifit it, I mean Caffraria. So jealous are thefe people of the incroachments of the Dutch, (who are the only Europeans they are acquainted with) that they ftridly prohibit individuals from entering their territory ; while its remotenefs has prevented the States, or the Company, from confidering it as an objedt of conqueft. I was not, however, deterred from the attempt by the difficulty of the undertaking; and with this great objeit in view, I fet out from Cape Town, on the twenty-third of December, and proceeded
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